European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 12, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse                                June j949 the stars and stripes Page 7 program galls for aircraft 1 june 11 air Force said yesterday it Ritt buy new planes As a step Oward building up a 70group the Money will come from the which the defense de or unsent earmarked for the purpose the recent defense approx Ria program will include 243 of which 162 Are heavy jog Range and Jet the Long Range Biotype Lomber will have conventional reciprocating but the bomber to Gram also will include 81 Jet of which 30 will be the flying Wing Jet ver in addition to the combat 3 transport and similar planes be the actual Cost e planes was hot buying program was an by air Secretary Lyming a news it Calls Iff Boeing 132 30 North american Jet 51 Northrop eight Gine Jet flying Wing Republic 409 Lockheed 457 North Amer an 333 North american 118 Curtiss and All Reather fighter with four i Curtiss a photo recon Lissance version of the the 553 transport trainers and Issue planes include Fairchild Douglas 28 Grum in an amphibian Rescue 32 North american a Iau Standard engine 266 a heed a two place Jet be air Force already had pre s order for some of these air reassigns of officers june 11 special new director of anal in Geoge assigned the office of the Deputy of staff Are among eight neral officers the air rce five generals who completed this sars National War College course received new Norris Harbold was med inspector general for the air Materiel Wrigh Patterson f Ohio in Mccormick is Deputy com ending general and chief of in air of Kenneth Mcnaugh was assigned As chief of the lining office of the july chief of staff of operations George Mundy went air Materiel and Asell Randall is the 1st air tree Deputy chief of staff for y William Farthing has been a dined to Usan Wash Bank extends Aid i air firms june 11 government owned Export it Bank announced that it will Svide part of a credit two swedish air transport com Nies to buy six dc6 transport toes Bank will provide e Douglas aircraft let of the and an private will provide i fits Tot March of time from Model t to this 1949 Ford club far cry from its staid old room for six ample space for their Luggage in the and better seats have been made wider and moved for cradling passengers Between the rules for a smoother 49 sleek descendant of tin costs More forces stage mock assault Selfridge june 11 armed forces unleashed some of their thunderous might on this air Force base yes Selfridge Fields Broad Plain underwent a mock assault from More than 100 sleek Warp apes and nearly men in a spectacular private show for american Industry exclusive concentrations of Power since the the Navy and air forces Shook the Earth in a half hour demonstration to showman fact users what is done with their arms it was the High spot of the 30th National meeting of the american ordnance in Are the men who Boss the factories which turn out the six thousand spectators and Omar army chief of and Joseph of the air witnessed the controlled violence of b29 Jet fighters and other newly developed Battle Craft of the new june 11 new Model Ford was unveiled in a strictly private and you never know that she is the great granddaughter of old tin the car is longer and More expensive than old i and exterior color 1 is but there is a marked reduction in the use of flashy Chrome finishing private unveiling ceremonies in ithe Waldo Fastoria on Park spread out Over an area As big As eight basketball Henry Ford spent on to make the and it took than a year and unannounced thousands of dollars to stage the unveiling in new the car goes Ori display june 18 in show rooms of Ford what strikes the Eye immediately is the its described As with a Low Silhouette which is unbroken from the Blunt nose to the genderless a balance was achieved by moving the body Forward five inches to Cradle it Between the mechanical improvements Are stressed by Ford engineers who made scores of changes such As rubber engine mountings to re Duce a 10 per cent crease in gasoline mileage in Normal operation and a 25 per cent improvement wit the optional engine the style change is emphasized by the Large Windshield and a maximum of 20 Square feet of color Choice is prices of to Are per cent higher than current models and Are subject to revision in 17 bodies identified in Navy tragedy june 11 the 5th naval said 26 bodies have been recovered of time 28 men missing in a swamped Liberty launch last seventeen of the the Navy have been the sailors and marines were lost in Hampton roads when the launch overturned while taking men to the Carrier the Navy has released the names of 10 More men including Houston William Alexander Shelton Woods pfc dry Sam Louis and Truman unable to attend sch Wellenbach funeral june 11 apr White House officials announced yesterday that president Truman will be unable to attend Secretary of labor Lewis sch Wellenbach funeral in Seattle presidential press Secretary Charles Ross said Truman deeply regrets that his commit ment to speak at the University of California at about the same hour would make it impossible for him to go to the president designated Secretary of be his personal representative at the to open of Soldier son i june 11 i common pleas judge pm Mons ruled yesterday that a presumably containing the body of Caret Peterson May be opened by his parents when it reaches their believed the first of its kind in the the ruling could Stab a precedent for similar and Ernest the lieutenants asked the courts permission to open the casket to satisfy themselves that the body in it was actually that of their was killed in they will have a dentist compare dentures of the dead Man with those made for their York wants income tax refund june 11 world War i is seeking to recover from the Federal York filed suit yesterday in Federal court at Nashville Inge overpaid his income taxes in 1940 and basis of the suit is Yorks claim that the right to sell his life Story is a capital the former ser Geant said he received in each of 1940 and 1941 for the rights to use his life Story in a motion Justice is not Oklahoma court rules Oklahoma june Blind Man charged with a crime need not be tried by a jury of Oklahoma criminal court of appeals held the court upheld the Man Slaughter conviction of Orbie a Blind Oklahoma City furniture dealer who shot and killed his former Mother inlaw March Guthrie was sentenced to 20 years in the he appealed on the grounds that the jury that convicted him was not a jury of his Peers since it was not made up of Blind rocket plane May have set Altitude Mark from press dispatches june tary of air Stuart Symington indicated yesterday that the air Force experimental rocket established both Speed and Altitude the world Speed record was chalked up last year at maroc air by Marine corps Marion who a Douglas d558 Miles per Symington that air Force will hot claim Altitude or records in connection these the Secretary use of the word Altitude indicated that the rocket in addition to crossing the sonic May have reached record Symington explained that he had decided to announce the Speed accomplishments of the new plane after the Justice department in formed him that earlier Publica Tion of this previously classified fact did not constitute a violation of Federal this was in reference to Publica Tion by an aviation Magazine of p detailed account of the a Sis successful flight through the Sonie Fri investigates the air shortly after publication of the asked the Fri to inquire into the matter and determine whether Security regulations had been the built by Bell aircraft is powered by four rocket the xs1 has a Wing Span of 28 a length of 31 feet and is 11 feet its empty weight is including More than 500 pounds of devices for measuring it carries pounds of fuel for its rocket the plane was designed to reach Miles an hour at feet and Miles an hour at Symington said the air Force ordered additional a Sis from Bell aircraft but did not give number the plane is used solely for experimental flight Theair Force has one of which is on loan to the National advisory com Mittee for a partner with the air Force and the Navy in the supersonic Speed flight Magazine sys second has beaten sound Speed new june 11 Tion week Magazine says a second air Force plane has flown faster than the plane the North american xfs6 and is now in production at the company Plant in on Sale june 14 a head honoured at Nyu new june 11 executive director and general manager of the associated received honorary degree of doctor of letters at new York University commencement sex a a guide Book for motoring in the dec for the folks at Home at All the stars and stripes Newsstands the stars and stripes Dils than 60 maps and photos plus a Highway map of Western Germany 15 cents